Kukla's Korner Hockey

Spacek lay on the ice for several minutes and appeared to be thankfully all right. The NHL subsequently handed Nichol a laughable nine game suspension. I realize I’m a “non-essential” (to steal TSN’s Pierre McQuire’s jargon) but nine games seems to be a tad low — especially in light of what the NHL just went through with Bertuzzi — and Marty McSorley before him. And Gary Suter (recall his vicious crosscheck to the face on Paul Kariya) before him and Dave Brown’s horrible assault on Tomas Sandstrom of the Rangers (in a similar incident to Suter’s) before that.